Jericho
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A town near the Jordan river east of
Jerusalem.
Place Type
settlement
Location
Descriptions
“فان قلنا جيد فقد يكون اجود منه ....... .....
الطائفى ونيل اريحا خير منه الزبيدى وخوخ مكة اسرى منه الدارقى” 5
An ancient site in
the Jordan valley.
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"Jericho" in WikipediaWorks Cited
Any information without attribution has been created following the Syriaca.org editorial guidelines.
- 1 The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, pp: 39, 228 (with fig. 60), 341, map: Map II A3.
- 2 The Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity, entry: Jericho.
- 3 David Wilmshurst, The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913, pp: 65.
- 4 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol: I, pp: 196.
- 5 Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Maqdisī, Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm, pp: 7.
- 6 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/687917," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places
How to Cite This Entry
Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Jericho” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/105.
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Bibliography:
Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Jericho.” In The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, edited by Haya Al Thani, Saif al-Murikhi, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahman Chamseddine and Mario Kozah. Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, 2020. Entry published January 10, 2020. https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/105.About this Entry
Entry Title: Jericho
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- Haya Al Thani, general editor, Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute
- Haya Al Thani, Saif al-Murikhi, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahman Chamseddine, and Mario Kozah, editors, The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer
- Thomas A. Carlson and Tobias Scheunchen, entry contributors, “Jericho”
Additional Credit:
- Research on coordinates by Tobias Scheunchen
- Data correction and integration from Ibn Battuta, al-Bakri, al-Tabari, Nasir Khusraw, Ibn Jubayr, Isho’yahb III, Al-Muqaddasī, Ibn Ḥawqal, Al-Masūdī, Yāqūt b. ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥamawī by Tobias Scheunchen
- Al-Muqaddasī data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Al-Muqaddasī data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Data merging and XML by William L. Potter
- Data merging and XML by David A. Michelson
- Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
- Wilmshurst index information entry by Anthony Davis
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